Copying fonts to another computer

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Joyce

Where I work, some staff just got new computers. Windows
XP and Office XP was already installed. Problem is, there
were very few fonts (38 total). On my work computer, when
Office XP was installed I ended up with 200+ fonts. We
have been trying to copy them over but the destination
computer keeps saying the font is in use, cannot be
installed. How can we get around this as the fonts have
not been in use at the time as far as we can tell?
Please help,
Joyce
 
Ok, sorry that didn't work. I had verified it as the way
to do it on my PC before I said how and it work as
advertised. The only other thing I can think of is the
login might not have administrator access.
 
Joyce said:
Where I work, some staff just got new computers. Windows
XP and Office XP was already installed. Problem is, there
were very few fonts (38 total). On my work computer, when
Office XP was installed I ended up with 200+ fonts. We
have been trying to copy them over but the destination
computer keeps saying the font is in use, cannot be
installed. How can we get around this as the fonts have
not been in use at the time as far as we can tell?
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Joyce,

if the font is already in use on the destination computer, then
why copy it? I guess you tried to copy all the fonts, even the
ones the destination computer already had.

You could go to the destination computer and use the function
File, Install new font. Then point at another computer that
already has the font or at some share with the desired fonts on
it.

Hans-Georg
 
Even though the computer says the font is already in use
on the destination computer, the font isn't actually
installed on that computer so the message makes no sense.

As well as trying logging on as administrator, as cww
suggests, I think I will try File, Install new font as you
suggest as well. I'll post what happens.

Thanks.
 
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